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Unraveled is a YouTube series that breaks down the most complicated video games and franchises and attempts to make sense of them.

Named for its "unraveling" of key video game concepts and characters, the show also features a narrative arc in which its host, Brian David Gilbert, becomes increasingly unhinged throughout the course of each episode.

Unraveled premiered on September 25, 2018 on Polygon's YouTube channel. The first episode, entitled "Solving the Zelda Timeline in 15 Minutes" suggested that The Legend of Zelda Monopoly board game is the singular pin that holds the entire canonical timeline of Zelda together.

Series overview
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Season 1
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History


On January 5, 2015, prominent IGN editors and producers Greg Miller, Colin Moriarty, Nick Scarpino, and Tim Gettys left the video game entertainment company to begin their own entertainment venture. The new company was funded primarily through viewer support, and crowdfunding on Patreon.

The channel covers games, film, television, and comics, as was covered at IGN, but often touches on other topics such as politics and snack foods. Their fans at IGN appreciated their off-topic commentary on these other subjects, so they decided to pursue it full-time with daily podcasts, live game and video streams, and produced YouTube shows. Their crowdfunding had raised $30,000 in the months leading up to their decision, and $10,000 the day of their announcement. Soon after, raised close to $35,000 a month between two Patreon accounts. Ben Kuchera of Polygon viewed the news as evidence that fan-funded content had reached new levels, and remarked that content-creators served to make more money when fans paid creators directly rather than the creators using advertising to raise money from fans. The team also continued to freelance for IGN after they left.

On March 30, 2016, Kinda Funny formed a partnership with Rooster Teeth by joining the LetsPlay Network and now occasionally appear in video content on the LetsPlay channel, as well as selling merchandise through the Rooster Teeth online store and participate in LetsPlay events.

New Kinda Funny content featured during one of GameSpot two stage shows at the 2016 Electronic Entertainment Expo. Greg Miller was named "Trending Gamer" at the 2015 The Game Awards and "Most Entertaining Online Personality" at the 2016 SXSW Gaming Awards.

On March 13, 2017, Colin Moriarty announced his resignation from the company following a difference in creative vision with the rest of the Kinda Funny co-founders and went on to create his own series of podcasts under the brand name Colin's Last Stand.

In 2017, Kinda Funny added Andy Cortez, a former employee of Rooster Teeth, along with social manager Joey Noelle, and Tim's brother, Greg 'Cool Greg' Gettys, to their staff. Following Danny O'Dwyer's exit as a co-host, Gary Whitta, best known for his work as co-writer on Star Wars film Rogue One and 2010's Book of Eli, joined a cast of rotating show co-hosts that also included What's Good Games' Andrea Rene and former IGN editor Jared Petty.

In January 2019, Kinda Funny announced Kinda Funny 4.0. This included the end of The Morning Show and the beginning of many new weekly shows. These include Internet Explorerz, KF/AF, Screencast, Party Mode, and Debatable. The group also retooled their podcast lineup; most notably they retired the long running GameOverGreggy Podcast and replaced it with The Kinda Funny Podcast. The Kinda Funny initiative was kicked off with a month long Patreon fundraiser drive. The month was so successful that Kinda Funny was able to kick off a Kinda Funny World Tour 2019.